Ai roundup

Here is your Friday AI roundup. Venkatesan M writes some pretty controversial things in his post today, starting with the title. He quotes Marvin Minsky co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, "Artificial intelligence has been brain-dead since the 1970s." He goes through a bit of history and education. I found it to be a great piece. Walter Farah writes about state supported AI work in China. I found his post both interesting and scary. Third up we have a fascinating post on differences between "AI" and "augmented intelligence." According to Bob Rogers, "the difference is in how we apply the technology." Lastly we have Mark Greene 's anthology of AI posts. He always finds things from sources that aren't in my normal scope of review. Read more at: